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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 18, 2005Racine County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 18, 2005, 9:40 PM CDT for Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 22 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 18, 2005, 9:40 PM CDT (02:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 18, 2005, 10:02 PM CDT
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Racine County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 18, 9:45 PM CDTHAIL 0.75Racine, WIDIME SIZED HAIL LOCATED AT HIGHWAY 20 AND LATHROP ROAD.
Aug 18, 9:45 PM CDTHAIL 1Racine, WIQUARTER SIZED HAIL LOCATED AT HIGHWAY 20 AND OHIO STREET.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 207 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2005-08-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2005-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
832 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KMKX 190240
TORMKX
WIC101-190300-
/O.NEW.KMKX.TO.W.0039.050819T0240Z-050819T0300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
940 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN RACINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 936 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  STURTEVANT...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4282 8791 4267 8796 4243 8667 4270 8661

$$

REM
2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS53 KMKX 190250
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
948 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005

WIC101-190300-
/O.CON.KMKX.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-050819T0300Z/
RACINE-
948 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR RACINE COUNTY...

AT 945 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS 
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ELMWOOD 
PARK...OR ABOUT NEAR STURTEVANT... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED ABOUT ONE MILE SOUTH OF FRANKSVILLE AT 
945 PM. 

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4282 8791 4267 8796 4243 8667 4270 8661

$$
MBK
000 
WWUS53 KMKX 190302
SVSMKX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1001 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005

WIC101-190311-
/O.EXP.KMKX.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-050819T0300Z/
RACINE-
1001 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR RACINE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1000 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS PUSHED EAST OF RACINE COUNTY OVER LAKE 
MICHIGAN.  HENCE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO 
EXPIRE AT 10 PM.  

WEAK THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE RACINE AREA THROUGH 
1030 PM. 

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4282 8791 4267 8796 4243 8667 4270 8661

$$
MBK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 18, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXDane, Jefferson63 min
Aug 18, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXRock, Walworth57 min
Aug 18, 7:58 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMKX2 hr
Aug 18, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson, Waukesha44 min
Aug 18, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXWalworth35 min
Aug 18, 8:52 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXRacine53 min
Aug 18, 9:48 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMKX57 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.